Why a second? Your first couldn’t have been any more than 5 years old.

EVs are getting their own lines of tyres (supposedly) designed to handle the weight, torque and address range concerns.

This isn’t foolproof.

The same car might be manufactured in multiple factories for multiple markets, to multiple levels of certification.

Your “new car” in one country, could be the previous years European model if the euro regs have changed.

Have you met an Australian recently?

This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.

Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.

I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.

Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.

VW can’t use the factories they have.

But do their products phone home?

HA integration is one thing, manufacturer independence is another.

How long until “Yeah, we’re withdrawing HomeAssistant support. You have 30 days to migrate your automations to SwitchBotPlus”

Someone GraphQLs

Single window mode was the last major milestone (to me at least) for GIMP. It made such a huge difference to usability, to the point that GIMP became a viable photoshop alternative.

I thought it was a 2.0 (released 2004) feature, but turns out it was a 2.8 (2012) feature. (2.0 was the GTK2 switch)

Either way, I remember both releases, and now I feel old.

GIMP, Inkscape. Keep on trucking. It’s been 20+ years and every one has shown improvements over the last.

This. But Pandas and Numpy.

Pandas and Numpy and Bash.

The independent city state of Galway.

oh that looks like hard work. You’re going to need to hydrate, let me go get you both some electrolytes.

New Zealand’s largest private health insurance provider (Southern Cross) is “run on not-for-profit principles”.

It’s not terrible, and seems to work. I guess the caveat is that their competition is a (mostly) functioning public healthcare system.

Dude did it as “art”.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-04/man-creates-fake-traffic-jam-on-google-maps-by-carting-99-phones/11929136

Weird, I was just thinking about my PC strap that I have no idea where it went.

I think I used it more for taking parcels to the post office than I did my PC tower. The thing was surprisingly useful.

Took me a while to realise that it was talking about the non-police role-playing as police.

Not police role-playing sexual scenarios, like it’s some regular daily part of their job.

Yay!

Does NZ count as Australia too? Or are we stuck with parallel importers, or picking one up on holiday?

Sony Bravia, not connected to any network, running in Pro Mode so it’s “just a TV”

Then a PC running plex and the arrs to substitute the streaming services.

If they know we have savings. They’ll just increase prices again to take them.

Social/Mobile games. So an already predatory industry. Let’s get people addicted to a game, and then suck as much money from them as possible.

In the industry, we definitely weren’t the only ones doing it. And really we were only doing basic stuff (it was all in house developed middleware, so effort vs reward didn’t make much sense to go hard) I wouldn’t be surprised if others were going deep.

• the hardest part is getting someone to part with their money. But once they’ve done it once, even for the smallest amount, the second purchase will be easier.
• conversions that stopped playing got emails with discounts.
• whales got freebies when they lost to keep them happy.
• everything else was just finding the customers perfect price.
• ultimately we were selling noting. So any sale is better than no sale. You can’t make a loss on a number in a database.

Everything was broken down into campaigns (we’d have multiple running at any one time) targeting different segments. Then we’d track the conversion, sale, and retention numbers of those campaigns against each other. Sometimes one campaign might flop for one segment but not another, so we’d retarget with a new one.

I don’t think it’s used much in other markets. I know Twilio has Segment, that could be used to do segmented pricing but I’ve never really seen it done in other industries.

I wouldn’t say it’s jaded me. It has made me conscious of my data footprint. I don’t play mobile or f2p games. But I am weary. The COVID greed-flation showed the mindset of businesses. It might not be long until targeted pricing becomes worthwhile to make number go up (still), and hidden under the guise of “lowering prices”.